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The Paper Chase preview

The Paper Chase preview

| January 24, 2007 | 0 Comments

The Paper Chase Subterranean, Chicago Friday, January 26, 2007 When there’s no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the earth . . . and The Paper Chase shall provide the soundtrack.

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First Blood preview

First Blood preview

| January 24, 2007 | 0 Comments

First Blood Champs, Burbank Monday, January 29, 2007 The disparate worlds of bloodlust and veganism combine for First Blood, who mangle hardcore metal into a fist-pumping paradigm.

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Uri Caine preview

Uri Caine preview

| January 24, 2007 | 0 Comments

Uri Caine University Of Chicago, Chicago Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Mozart’s most cherished pieces reworked with electric guitar and turntables? Blasphemous?

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moe. Preview

moe. Preview

| January 24, 2007 | 0 Comments

moe. Park West, Chicago Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Seems like fans of jam band extraordinaire moe. finally just digested the quintet’s two-night stand at the Chicago Theatre over Thanksgiving weekend. Ready or not, the boys are back in town.

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Family In Need

Family In Need

| January 24, 2007 | 0 Comments

Benefit For Callum Robbins A lineup featuring Eleventh Dream Day, Chin Up Chin Up, Bobby Conn, The Life And Times, and Red Eyed Legends will be on hand at Empty Bottle on January 27th to raise money for the afflicted one-year-old son of musician/producer J. Robbins.

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Grammy me? Grammy U!

Grammy me? Grammy U!

| January 24, 2007 | 0 Comments

BEHIND THE MUSIC The Chicago Chapter Of The Recording Academy is offering college students a peek at what goes on “behind the scenes” in the music industry, but nobody is promising you’ll like what you see.

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Rafter reviewed

Rafter reviewed

| January 24, 2007 | 0 Comments

Rafter Music For Total Chickens (Asthmatic Kitty) The cover image for this album appears to be a chicken egg exploding in mid-air, an adequate description of how your head will feel upon listening to it.

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Jeff Tuohy reviewed

Jeff Tuohy reviewed

| January 24, 2007 | 0 Comments

Jeff Tuohy Breaking Down The Silence (self-released) This New York-based singer-songwriter dodges the sort of vacant hipster tags that plague his Big Apple contemporaries, rising out of the frat-rock scene. Appearing: January 27th at Joe’s in Chicago.

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Urban Legend reviewed

Urban Legend reviewed

| January 24, 2007 | 0 Comments

Urban Legend Of Old Lost Days (Contraphonic) Seizing upon the recent, albeit minor success of The Thermals, Contraphonic releases some demos to illustrate what could have been for Sub Pop’s resident malcontents.

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The Ponys, Sano live!

The Ponys, Sano live!

| January 17, 2007 | 0 Comments

The Ponys, Sano Schubas, Chicago Friday, January 12, 2006 The flagship showcase for this year’s Tomorrow Never Knows festival at Schubas featured the first performance by Chicago’s Ponys in several months. Fueled as the night was by an ad hoc, adventurous spirit, the real winner was a side project by The M’s Josh Chicoine, called […]

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Beres Hammond, Marcia Griffiths live!

Beres Hammond, Marcia Griffiths live!

| January 17, 2007 | 1 Comment

Beres Hammond, Marcia Griffiths House Of Blues Sunday, January 14, 2007 Dancehall reggae, with its rough riddims and often explicit lyrics continues to dominate Jamaica’s music scene but for evidence that singer-songwriters still command influence, one only needs to turn to Beres Hammond.

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Daedelus Preview

Daedelus Preview

| January 17, 2007 | 1 Comment

Daedelus Smart Bar, Chicago Thursday, January 18, 2007 Sonotheque, Chicago Friday, January 19, 2007 Someone might want to tell DJ/producer Daedelus that myspace.com/daedelus is already spoken for, so he might want to make sure any mention of it is removed from his press materials.

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Go Motion Preview

Go Motion Preview

| January 17, 2007 | 0 Comments

Go Motion Bar Vertigo, Chicago Saturday, January 20, 2007 Judging by their press pictures, Go Motion, like most of their dance rock, nu wave peers, are fairly attractive fellas.

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Terror Preview

Terror Preview

| January 17, 2007 | 0 Comments

Terror Knights Of Columbus, Arlington Heights Tuesday, January 23rd, 2006 While aiming toward “Headbanger’s Ball” and touring with Perish, who are on Nuclear Blast Records, Terror are a hardcore punk band at the core, with chunky metal riffage for window dressing.

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The Head Set Reviewed

The Head Set Reviewed

| January 17, 2007 | 0 Comments

The Head Set Way Past Used (Businessman Businessman) Economical guitar work, the occasional bowed instrument, and crashing drums turn vocalist Jordan Blaugrund into a stumbling, impassioned drunk on The Head Set’s debut.

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